A step-back from Forbes on the deeply weird banking relationships at FTX notes that the exchange’s accounts at Moonstone Bank, supposedly worth almost $50 million, didn’t appear in the FTX bankruptcy proceedings.
What if Inspector Gadget was the bad guy all along?
At least, that’s what Sam Bankman-Fried seems to have done. The dog is a German shepherd named Sandor, and — unforgivably — Puck’s Teddy Schleifer has not taken a photo for his post.
Yes, SBF is still giving interviews. There isn’t a lot of meat in this one, and not just because dude’s a vegan. But he tells Schleifer that’s he’s planning to battle this all the way out in court.
The twin sea gods famously shafted by Mark Zuckerberg? Inexplicably involved in the tech industry despite having dominion over the sea floor?
Anyway they’re beefing with the Digital Currency Group now, Bloomberg says their reputation has been tarnished, and their rock band, The Mars Junction, is the lede of the story. Perhaps they have been cursed, and the only thing that will free them is breaking some magical conch shell, who can say!
Amazon’s iRobot has been recording its customers, including on the toilet:
iRobot—the world’s largest vendor of robotic vacuums, which Amazon recently acquired for $1.7 billion in a pending deal—confirmed that these images were captured by its Roombas in 2020. All of them came from “special development robots with hardware and software modifications that are not and never were present on iRobot consumer products for purchase,” the company said in a statement. They were given to “paid collectors and employees” who signed written agreements acknowledging that they were sending data streams, including video, back to the company for training purposes.
Anyway, those videos were then posted to Facebook by gig workers in Venezuela. Congrats on your luxury surveillance apparatus!
[MIT Technology Review]
Here’s one explanation as to why:
“Coinbase is tied to the fortunes of the broader crypto markets.” said Michael Safai, partner at crypto trading firm Dexterity Capital. “Dogecoin has no real connection to the macro, but instead is driven almost primarily by headlines and hype, retail investors seem to be hungry for one last pop.”
Cool industry!
Elon Musk’s ban of competing social media platforms — except TikTok, I’m sure there’s a good reason for that besides his Tesla factory in China — seems to be aggravating people. To cite Twitter scripture: Is that good?
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Ryan Broderick gets at the core emotional experience of what happened in the chaotic forum drama last night: “The man is jacked directly into the feed and it turns out the feed is screaming back at him, ‘you fucking suck.’”
A pro-tip for our readers: Money can’t buy love. If love’s what you want, be a lover.
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